Thursday, 3 October 2013

FREE RO SU HUI NOW!

By New Worker
correspondent

Last
year a veteran south Korean peace activist was jailed by the south Korean
puppet regime after he returned from a visit to the north. Ro Su Hui was
sentenced to four years in prison under south Korea’s draconian anti-communist
“National Security Law” and last week pickets were again outside the south
Korean embassy in London to demand his release.

NCP leader Andy Brooks joined other
friends of the Korean people at the protest organised by the International
Campaign for the Release of Ro Su Hui and the UK Korean Friendship Association.

Dermot Hudson, the secretary of the
international campaign, read out demands for Ro Su Hui’s release throughout the
picket as well as messages of support from the Swiss Korea Committee and other
groups. Dermot said: " we are here today to protest against the jailing of
Mr Ro Su Hui and also the recent arrest of Mr Lee Seok Ki an assemblyman from
the Unified Progressive Party.

We strongly denounce the south Korean so-called
authorities (in reality a gang of fascist puppets who grovel to the American
imperialists) for the 4 year jail sentence imposed on vice -chairman Mr Ro Su
Hui .

This is an outrageous and despotic act
against Mr Ro who had simply campaigned for peace and reunification. All he did
was to visit the northern half of his own country, this should not be
considered a crime.

Mr Ro was subjected to brutal treatment
when he crossed back into south Korea and was held without trial for more than
6 months in south Korea. Mr Ro is is over the age of 65 and he is suffering
from cancer. This is a most inhuman act of the south Korean regime”.

Protesters leafleted passers-by
while others read out statements and maintained a barrage of slogans throughout
the afternoon demonstration, including a lively rendering of "south Korea is a fascist regime "
to the tune of the Beatles’ "Yellow Submarine"!